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From the New Yorker:
- Brennan's Backward Bend
The CIA chief made a fool of himself defending Islam and claiming ISIS isn't motivated by it: CIA chief John Brennan said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that the Islamic State group is motivated by a violent -- and not a religious -- ideology,...
- Bill Maher: We're A "pussy Nation," And Liberals Are Craven In Their Refusal To Condemn Violently Anti-liberal Islamist Ideology
From Meidaite: America got a preview of what we can expect from the 13th season premiere of HBO’s Real Time this Friday night when Bill Maher joined Jimmy Kimmel and unleashed his anger on Muslims who “applaud” an attack like the one that killed...
- Seeing More Headscarves
When I was a kid, I never saw Islamic-style headscarves worn by anyone in my town. I first saw one a few years ago. Now I see them all the time. And it bothers me. Does that make me a racist? People all over the free world are seeing the same thing, and...
- Security Threat Raised In France
My friends, I am very busy with business this week, and I simply do not have time to post anything that requires thinking on my part. However, Religion of Pieces is sending me some important stuff, so I hope he doesn't mind if I just post his shit....
- There It Is - Right Out Of The Horses Mouth
From The Gathering Storm The debate is over. All the brewhaha over what to call the enemy in the so-called war on terror - terrorist, jihadists, Islamo-fascists, or whatever the name of the week is, has been settled. As Bush has said, we are fighting...
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The New Yorker: The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders
From the New Yorker:
The murders today in Paris are not a result of France’s failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They’re not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that.
They’re not part of some general wave of nihilistic violence in the economically depressed, socially atomized, morally hollow West—the Paris version of Newtown or Oslo. Least of all should they be “understood” as reactions to disrespect for religion on the part of irresponsible cartoonists.
They are only the latest blows delivered by an ideology that has sought to achieve power through terror for decades. It’s the same ideology that sent Salman Rushdie into hiding for a decade under a death sentence for writing a novel, then killed his Japanese translator and tried to kill his Italian translator and Norwegian publisher.
The ideology that murdered three thousand people in the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The one that butchered Theo van Gogh in the streets of Amsterdam, in 2004, for making a film.
The one that has brought mass rape and slaughter to the cities and deserts of Syria and Iraq. That massacred a hundred and thirty-two children and thirteen adults in a school in Peshawar last month.
That regularly kills so many Nigerians, especially young ones, that hardly anyone pays attention. Because the ideology is the product of a major world religion, a lot of painstaking pretzel logic goes into trying to explain what the violence does, or doesn’t, have to do with Islam.
Some well-meaning people tiptoe around the Islamic connection, claiming that the carnage has nothing to do with faith, or that Islam is a religion of peace, or that, at most, the violence represents a “distortion” of a great religion. (After suicide bombings in Baghdad, I grew used to hearing Iraqis say, “No Muslim would do this.”)
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents. Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don’t actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique.
- Brennan's Backward Bend
The CIA chief made a fool of himself defending Islam and claiming ISIS isn't motivated by it: CIA chief John Brennan said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that the Islamic State group is motivated by a violent -- and not a religious -- ideology,...
- Bill Maher: We're A "pussy Nation," And Liberals Are Craven In Their Refusal To Condemn Violently Anti-liberal Islamist Ideology
From Meidaite: America got a preview of what we can expect from the 13th season premiere of HBO’s Real Time this Friday night when Bill Maher joined Jimmy Kimmel and unleashed his anger on Muslims who “applaud” an attack like the one that killed...
- Seeing More Headscarves
When I was a kid, I never saw Islamic-style headscarves worn by anyone in my town. I first saw one a few years ago. Now I see them all the time. And it bothers me. Does that make me a racist? People all over the free world are seeing the same thing, and...
- Security Threat Raised In France
My friends, I am very busy with business this week, and I simply do not have time to post anything that requires thinking on my part. However, Religion of Pieces is sending me some important stuff, so I hope he doesn't mind if I just post his shit....
- There It Is - Right Out Of The Horses Mouth
From The Gathering Storm The debate is over. All the brewhaha over what to call the enemy in the so-called war on terror - terrorist, jihadists, Islamo-fascists, or whatever the name of the week is, has been settled. As Bush has said, we are fighting...